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Compare and contrast the ways in which love is presented in The Great Gatsby and The Whitsun Weddings

In The Great Gatsby, love is presented as an unattainable ideal which the eponymous character fruitlessly chases in his pursuit of Daisy. He romanticises his past with her without realising that the past is ...
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In Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘Digging’, how does the poet express admiration for his father?

In ‘Digging’, the first poem in Seamus Heaney’s first collection Death of a Naturalist , the poet dramatises the moment he decides to dedicate his life to writing poetry. Exploring the emotionally complex re...
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Explore how Kazuo Ishiguro presents the relationship between Stevens and his father in 'The Remains of the Day'

The relationship between the protagonist of The Remains of the Day, Stevens, and his father, is presented as complex and distant by Kazuo Ishiguro in a variety of different ways. Formal and sparse dialogue i...
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'Women in Jane Austen's novel 'Emma' are consistently undermined by their male superiors.' Discuss.

First, in the introduction, I would suggest that you would have to define the key terms. So for example, which female characters are you going to discuss? You cannot discuss them all to great detail, so pick...
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In the poem Mametz Wood, Owen Sheers explores ideas about conflict. Write about the ways in which Sheers presents conflict in this poem.

Sheers presents conflict through the juxtaposition of images of nature and unnatural warcraft in Mametz Wood. In the second Stanza, Sheers describes the remnants of the soldiers' bodies through the metaphor ...
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